PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 560-DEC. 7 , 1945 assistant Army mail clerks for the loss of any funds or valuable paper which they may have in their official custody, resulting from burglary, fire, or other unavoidable casualty, and for the loss occur- By bank failure. ring after April 1, 1924, by bank failure of any such funds deposited in National or State banks, and if he shall determine that such loss resulted from no fault or negligence on the part of such officers or employees, may pay to them or credit them with the amount so ascer- in transit by maL tained to have been lost or destroyed, and may also credit them with the amount of any remittance of such funds or valuable paper made by them in compliance with the instructions of the Postmaster Gen- eral, which shall have been lost or stolen while in transit by mail to the office designated as a depository, or after arrival at such deposi- tory office and before the postmaster at such depository office has become responsible therefor, or to the postmaster at any other post office, and authorized shipments of postage and other stamp stock or valuable paper lost while in transit by mail from one such officer or employee to another such officer or employee, or to or from the Post Office Department, and such funds remitted after April 1, 1924, in compliance with instructions of the Postmaster General in the form of drafts or checks which have been returned unpaid or dishonored by reason of the closing of the banks issuing such drafts or checks: Filing of claim with Provided,That in all cases of bank failure the postmaster shall first receiver of insolvent bank. f sole nt file with the receiver of the insolvent bank a claim for the full amount of the funds involved and assign such claim to the Postmaster Gen- claim exceeding eral, who shall receive all dividends accruing in any such case. No $10,00. claim exceeding the sum of $10,000 shall be paid or credited until after the facts shall have been ascertained by the Postmaster General, and an appropriation made therefor. All such claims must be pre- sented within six months from the time the loss occurred: Provided Time tation. further, That in the case of claims of Navy mail clerks, assistant Navy mail clerks, Coast Guard mail clerks, assistant Coast Guard mail clerks, Army mail clerks, assistant Army mail clerks, and post- masters outside the continental United States the limitation shall be two years as to claims for losses occurring while the United States Applicability, is at war: Provided further, That the provisions of this Act, as regards Army mail clerks and assistant Army mail clerks, shall be applicable to claims which have arisen or may arise at any time sub- 39 u. . c.,supp. sequent to the Act of August 21, 1941 (55 Stat. 656), authorizing the IV,i 138. designation of Army mail clerks and assistant Army mail clerks, and likewise shall, in the case of Coast Guard mail clerks and assistant Coast Guard mail clerks, be applicable to claims which have arisen 39 U. . C ., supp. or may arise at any time subsequent to the Act of July 11, 1941 (55 IV,§34. Stat. 586), authorizing the designation of Coast Guard mail clerks and assistant Coast Guard mail clerks. Nonapplicability. "SEC. 2 . The provisions of this Act shall not be applicable to claims for losses cognizable under the Government Losses in Ship- ment Act (Act of July 8, 1937, 50 Stat. 479, as amended; 5 U. S . C ., 1940 edition, sec. 134-134h), nor to claims for losses by Army mail clerks and assistant Army mail clerks relating to stamps which were supplied to them by the War Department and not by the Post Office Department, nor to the funds received through the sale of such stamps, nor to claims for losses by Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy mail clerks relating to stamps which were supplied to them by the Navy Department and not by the Post Office Department, nor to the funds received through the sale of such stamps." Approved December 7, 1945. [59 STAT.
�
